Adobe GoLive is an award winning Web-authoring tool, aimed at professional Web site designers and developers, which integrates seamlessly with the latest version of Photoshop. GoLive 4 continues to offer superb HTML control, powerful site management features, and support for CSS, DHTML, as well as ready-made JavaScript actions. GoLive 4 includes an improved QuickTime movie editor, which permits Web developers to edit video directly within the GoLive window. Adobe GoLive 4 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide provides thorough coverage of all the palettes and tools in the GoLive interface, as well as all the new features of the application. This is the first cross-platform edition of a GoLive VQS, and will appeal to all those eagerly awaiting the release of the Windows version of the software. Step-by-step explanation of Adobe GoLive's tools for designing dynamic Web pages. Previous, Mac-only edition sold over 10,000 copies. Detailed coverage of all the new features to get busy professionals up and running quickly.
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Adobe GoLive 4 for Macintosh and Windows is a clear and thorough introduction to Adobe's complex Web authoring application. Although the text skimps on the basics of HTML and the Web, beginners will feel comfortable with its step-by-step approach to GoLive's visually oriented tools and will be able to create Web pages in just a few hours.
The first chapters introduce GoLive's working environment. Adobe GoLive 4 is cross-platform instruction, but since the application's interface differs little between Windows and Macintosh, there is minimal chance for confusion. The book then takes the reader through basic Web page assembly, placing and formatting text, and using GoLive's layout tools. Even users with extensive experience in layout applications like Quark or PageMaker may be daunted at first by GoLive's vastly different toolbars and inspectors, but the book provides many tips that clarify perplexing palettes or actions, warn about problems that can arise, or give advice on how to set preferences for optimal performance.
Adobe GoLive 4 also covers placing images, working with links, animating elements on the page, and working with the built-in HTML editors and the extensive site management tools. Topics like QuickTime authoring or JavaScript actions get a basic introduction.
An intermediate user will find Adobe GoLive 4 a good book for sharpening skills. For example, readers who are already comfortable with GoLive's Button tool for creating rollovers can look up the section on layers and the Show/Hide action and construct a multiple event rollover in short order.
As with all the books in this series, Adobe GoLive 4 is more like a reference book than a tutorial, and it is certainly a good choice if there isn't much time to hurdle the learning curve. --Angelynn Grant
Topics covered: An introduction to most of the features and functions in Adobe GoLive 4, including the application interface, toolbar, palettes, inspectors, page views, site management tools, and Web database; creating Web pages, including placing and formatting text, using the tools for making lists, spellchecking and find/replace, working with layout grids, tables, color, multiple objects, images and image maps, links, and frames; introduction to multimedia, including JavaScript and Java applets; introduction to DHTML and cascading style sheets and creating animation within GoLive; working with HTML tags, troubleshooting Web pages and publishing Web sites, including using built-in or standalone FTP
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Adobe's award-winning Web-authoring tool, GoLive, gives professional Web site designers and developers superb HTML control, powerful site-management tools, support for CSS and DHTML, seamless integration with Photoshop, and ready-made JavaScript actions. To get the most out of this feature-rich program and get to work quickly, you need a no-nonsense guide like Adobe GoLive 4 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide. With step-by-step instructions and hundreds of screenshots, the author walks you through all of GoLive's palettes and tools, as well as new and improved features such as the QuickTime movie editor, which lets you edit video directly from the GoLive window. This cross-platform guide was designed with busy professionals in mind. Whether you follow it as a tutorial or use the tabbed format to go straight to a specific topic, you'll be designing dynamic Web pages in no time.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great for those who want to get going quick,
This review is from: Adobe GoLive 4 for Macintosh & Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide) (Paperback)
This is an excellent starter book for golive. It is very descriptive and visual. A must for those who want to start quick and are new to the product. For those who are familiar with golive, this is still helpful but not a must.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
The real problem is GoLive,
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This review is from: Adobe GoLive 4 for Macintosh & Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide) (Paperback)
As a monument to unneccessary complexity, GoLive stands alone; (Photoshop is a snap by comparsion). This book tries to simplfy what cannot be simplified so those who need basic instruction that takes nothing for granted will be lost. On the other hand, those who want to spend their lives designing a web page will find there is so much complexity to GoLive that (obviously) a "quickstart guide" cannot cover it all. Put this on the bookself, next to "Speak Fluent Chinese in an Hour or Less". I found the GoLive Classroom in a Book slightly easier to understand--but not much.
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Visual Confusion!,
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This review is from: Adobe GoLive 4 for Macintosh & Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide) (Paperback)
This book has a great start. Then it slows down and the explenations becomes diffuse and sloppy. It is actually an art building anything serious with this book by your side. You will be better of with the help file, or perhaps some heavy metal...
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